A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m a big fan of the HBO series, Game of Thrones. I wait with bated breath every week to see what happens to the people of Westeros and beyond, and I usually want to throw the remote through the television screen when it ends, furious that I have to wait another week to see more.
You’d think I would be a huge fan of the books too, right? Well, the first two left me kind of cold; I had a hard time getting past the long-winded descriptions of food, heraldry, family history, clothing… the list, like GRRM’s writing style, goes on and on. I was ready to give up on the series and let HBO run with it.
I’m glad I didn’t. A Storm of Swords is undoubtedly the best of the first three books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The characters that I’ve come to love (Dany, Jon, Tyrion, Arya) go through some amazing growth, and the characters that I’ve come to hate (Cersei, Jaime) or at least dislike (Sansa) do too. By the end of this book, Jaime became one of my favourite characters, because his motivations and feelings were allowed to come to light.
There were a lot of unexpected plot twists in this one (The Red Wedding! I’m so glad no one spoiled that for me, so I won’t spoil it here), and even the plot twists that were not so unexpected (I won’t spoil even the most obvious turns here) were interesting and relevant to the plot. This one ends on such a cliffhanger that I almost threw my Kindle at the wall!
Now that the characters have been introduced and fleshed out, I hope the series continues in this vein. I don’t mind reading hundreds upon hundreds of pages of meal descriptions, as long as the events surrounding the meal continue to be this exciting!
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